More modern languages have done little, if anything, to reduce a programmer's ability to create a confused mess. Goto may be gone...
Goto is still with us. One "feature" I have never seen implemented in anything except COBOL is the ability, when calling a subroutine, to specify the start point and the exit point of the subroutine.
Up until fairly recently it was pretty easy to go back to your preferred work space in Windows.
So completely and utterly true.
What I can't believe is that at the moment, Microsoft is up the same creek as Unity and Gnome. All of which are basically forcing touch interfaces without an option to revert to old behavior.
What a complete Gish Gallop. Here are some quick answers:
Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software?
Actually, some will. But, where there is too little benefit, some business rightfully won't.
What happened to that money they saved?
Maybe it was: (1) reinvested (2) paid out as dividends (3) passed on to their customers via a reduced selling price.
Aren't they also losing money by working with inefficient, outdated systems?
Without a cost-benefit analysis for the system in question, the answer is: not necessarily.
Do you know what's more expensive than upgrading?
(1) Moon rockets. (2) Nukes. (3) Solid gold toilet seats. (4) Led Zeppelin's music rights.
Do you know what's more expensive than upgrading? Downgrading to the old system they had before they upgraded!
WTF? Who does both?
Now the crux: who are you trying to drum up business for?
Persecutory delusions are usually treated with medications for schizophrenia, especially when positive symptoms are present. Both first-generation antipsychotics and second-generation antipsychotics may be useful. Cognitive behavioral therapy has also been used.
What will it look like? A little like the famous View From New York, but with a few substitutions e.g. Tehran in the foreground, Mashhad in place of Chicago, Mecca instead of Las Vegas, and Jerusalem standing in for Los Angeles.
A flashy UI that is actually very nice, very useful in many ways (Aero peek, preview, etc.) and doesn't look like Microsoft subcontracted PlaySkool to design it.
I turned off all the transparency and animation in Windows 7. I want it to function as a window manager, not as a time and energy waster.
File operations that actually handle errors properly instead of just, "aw, fuck it, there's one error in a copy operation of a thousand files, I'll just drop them all..."
I noticed that, and got into the habit of using cygwin's cp -a. I'm not changing back.
Much improved dealing with unpredictable loads by somewhat separating the UI with background processes (try loading an explorer window with a bunch of mapped drives on XP, then try it on 7)
Going back aways... I faintly recall a stupid animated GIF of a torch... but... cygwin again. Although sometimes I do run 'explorer.'.
Drag-n-snap Windows to and from screen edges for quick resizing and Windows that can't be lost off-screen.
Actually, I wish Windows wouldn't try to second-guess me like that.
I'm know there are more I've forgotten and have yet to discover. I actually used XP until earlier this year and I was reluctant to switch for a while, especially in the early days with bad driver support. But I had worked on enough customer PCs to know that I'd be able to get used to it, and I'm glad I switched.
Customers, yes. But there are another 4x2^30 reasons why I switched...
There really should be a Scientology Proven Right web page in the spirit of
Conservapedia's:
Xenu Scientific Foreknowledge: The universe is 4 quadrillion years old.
Liberal claptrap in response: The universe is 13.7 billion years old.
Result: The latest Plank spacecraft measurement is 13.8 billion years. Scientology Proven Right!
This was not true prior to the US invasion. It is a consequence of the US invasion.
Hate to break it to you but for anybody who lived in or near there, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was actually kind of a dangerous place. Some highlights:
Invaded Iran in 1980. That war killed 500,000 to 1,000,000 soldiers and civilians in those two countries.
Killed 182,000 Kurdish civilians between 1986 and 1989.
Killed 80,000 to 230,000 civilians during uprisings in 1991
Executed hundreds of Ba'ath members in 1979
Invaded Kuwait in 1990
Repressed, tortured and killed citizens throughout his reign
But it's junk. The Lib/Nat coalition are talking about improving the copper system, maybe going from ADSL2+ to VDSL, so from 20Mbps to 40Mbps.
The Lib/Nat coalition are idiots sometimes. Tony Abbott refused to believe NBNCo when they changed their maximum available data rate from 100Mbps to 1Gbps. But even that is nothing. 100Gbps optical Ethernet is commercially available, and researchers have managed 26 terabits per second with a single laser, and 100 terabits per second with multiple lasers. And that research limit is not in the fibre itself, but in the endpoints. So they are talking about spending $6B over six years on a twofold data rate increase. And pooh-poohing a $40B plan to increase the data rate by 5,000,000. Oh and how often does the national data rate double? About every two years! So they get two years of data growth out of a $6B investment over six years, instead of about 45 years of data growth from a $40B investment.
Speaking of really stupid things to do... you are attacking a straw man. The real Phil Plait has debunked astrology,
alignment and concordance many times, and in so doing has never once mentioned the speed of light. He don't need to: he simply points out the impossibility of any mechanism, and the absence of any effect.
Florida Man Slapped With Warning After Riding Dying Sperm Whale
Florida Man Traps Ex-Girlfriend's Mother Into A Fold-Out Couch
Police Find Cocaine In Florida Man's Prosthetic Leg
Because Clive Palmer, that's why.
Oh and Gina Rinehart.
And Twiggy Forrest.
And anybody other billionaire who wears Hi Viz on TV and blusters on about Jobs For Australians. All the while meaning Profits For Me. And Acshly Is Jobs for Migrants.
Slashdot Mirror
And say "Goodbye, Global Warming! And hello, Nuclear Winter!".
The real conspirator. The other clue that Snowden is innocent is that he only has a goatee.
More modern languages have done little, if anything, to reduce a programmer's ability to create a confused mess. Goto may be gone ...
Goto is still with us. One "feature" I have never seen implemented in anything except COBOL is the ability, when calling a subroutine, to specify the start point and the exit point of the subroutine.
Put it in Congress and it would drone on endlessly.
Your friend is an idiot. Not for using av gas on the street, for racing on the street.
Well, maybe at the North Pole ...
Thankfully, TFA has a link to another, far more interesting, FA:
Gotta hand it to the Herald-Sun. They don't get distracted by irrelevant minutiae such as digital forensics. They cut to the chase!
Up until fairly recently it was pretty easy to go back to your preferred work space in Windows.
So completely and utterly true.
What I can't believe is that at the moment, Microsoft is up the same creek as Unity and Gnome. All of which are basically forcing touch interfaces without an option to revert to old behavior.
What a complete Gish Gallop. Here are some quick answers:
Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? Actually, some will. But, where there is too little benefit, some business rightfully won't .
What happened to that money they saved? Maybe it was: (1) reinvested (2) paid out as dividends (3) passed on to their customers via a reduced selling price.
Aren't they also losing money by working with inefficient, outdated systems? Without a cost-benefit analysis for the system in question, the answer is: not necessarily.
Do you know what's more expensive than upgrading? (1) Moon rockets. (2) Nukes. (3) Solid gold toilet seats. (4) Led Zeppelin's music rights.
Do you know what's more expensive than upgrading? Downgrading to the old system they had before they upgraded! WTF? Who does both?
Now the crux: who are you trying to drum up business for?
An interesting problem, let's see:
Persecutory delusions are usually treated with medications for schizophrenia, especially when positive symptoms are present. Both first-generation antipsychotics and second-generation antipsychotics may be useful. Cognitive behavioral therapy has also been used.
More here.
What will it look like? A little like the famous View From New York, but with a few substitutions e.g. Tehran in the foreground, Mashhad in place of Chicago, Mecca instead of Las Vegas, and Jerusalem standing in for Los Angeles.
I use Windows 7! But:
A flashy UI that is actually very nice, very useful in many ways (Aero peek, preview, etc.) and doesn't look like Microsoft subcontracted PlaySkool to design it.
I turned off all the transparency and animation in Windows 7. I want it to function as a window manager, not as a time and energy waster.
File operations that actually handle errors properly instead of just, "aw, fuck it, there's one error in a copy operation of a thousand files, I'll just drop them all..."
I noticed that, and got into the habit of using cygwin's cp -a. I'm not changing back.
Much improved dealing with unpredictable loads by somewhat separating the UI with background processes (try loading an explorer window with a bunch of mapped drives on XP, then try it on 7)
Going back aways ... I faintly recall a stupid animated GIF of a torch ... but ... cygwin again. Although sometimes I do run 'explorer .' .
Drag-n-snap Windows to and from screen edges for quick resizing and Windows that can't be lost off-screen.
Actually, I wish Windows wouldn't try to second-guess me like that.
I'm know there are more I've forgotten and have yet to discover. I actually used XP until earlier this year and I was reluctant to switch for a while, especially in the early days with bad driver support. But I had worked on enough customer PCs to know that I'd be able to get used to it, and I'm glad I switched.
Customers, yes. But there are another 4x2^30 reasons why I switched ...
There really should be a Scientology Proven Right web page in the spirit of Conservapedia's:
Xenu Scientific Foreknowledge: The universe is 4 quadrillion years old.
Liberal claptrap in response: The universe is 13.7 billion years old.
Result: The latest Plank spacecraft measurement is 13.8 billion years. Scientology Proven Right!
This was not true prior to the US invasion. It is a consequence of the US invasion.
Hate to break it to you but for anybody who lived in or near there, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was actually kind of a dangerous place. Some highlights:
Invaded Iran in 1980. That war killed 500,000 to 1,000,000 soldiers and civilians in those two countries.
Killed 182,000 Kurdish civilians between 1986 and 1989.
Killed 80,000 to 230,000 civilians during uprisings in 1991
Executed hundreds of Ba'ath members in 1979
Invaded Kuwait in 1990
Repressed, tortured and killed citizens throughout his reign
It's better than the alternative.
Please read the opposition policy on national broadband access and get back to us. That's likely what we will get come the September election.
Here it is.
But it's junk. The Lib/Nat coalition are talking about improving the copper system, maybe going from ADSL2+ to VDSL, so from 20Mbps to 40Mbps.
The Lib/Nat coalition are idiots sometimes. Tony Abbott refused to believe NBNCo when they changed their maximum available data rate from 100Mbps to 1Gbps. But even that is nothing. 100Gbps optical Ethernet is commercially available, and researchers have managed 26 terabits per second with a single laser, and 100 terabits per second with multiple lasers. And that research limit is not in the fibre itself, but in the endpoints. So they are talking about spending $6B over six years on a twofold data rate increase. And pooh-poohing a $40B plan to increase the data rate by 5,000,000. Oh and how often does the national data rate double? About every two years! So they get two years of data growth out of a $6B investment over six years, instead of about 45 years of data growth from a $40B investment.
Read Nick Ross's take.
Lighten up, will you? This is no place for picking on newbies. Or, for treating old timers as newbies. Or for recycling lame jokes.
... geocentricism, steady state theory, ufology ...
but wait! here's a blast from the past: "dirty linux loving phaggots"
... Microsoft Research ...
... creation science, Japanese whale research, postmodern sociology ...
I actually do real public scientific outreach myself ...
Ooh, tell me more. I'm guessing big tobacco, fossil fuel / nuclear, anything involving LD50 tests ...
Speaking of really stupid things to do ... you are attacking a straw man. The real Phil Plait has debunked astrology,
alignment and concordance many times, and in so doing has never once mentioned the speed of light. He don't need to: he simply points out the impossibility of any mechanism, and the absence of any effect.
+1 Informative?! Congratulations. But RFC2550 is already obsolete - it depends on the Drake Equation which changed recently.
I do not think it means what I think it means.
Damn right Florida is unstable. Check out these headlines. A sample:
Florida Man Slapped With Warning After Riding Dying Sperm Whale
Florida Man Traps Ex-Girlfriend's Mother Into A Fold-Out Couch
Police Find Cocaine In Florida Man's Prosthetic Leg
Because Clive Palmer, that's why.
Oh and Gina Rinehart.
And Twiggy Forrest.
And anybody other billionaire who wears Hi Viz on TV and blusters on about Jobs For Australians. All the while meaning Profits For Me. And Acshly Is Jobs for Migrants.